Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lycanthropy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lycanthropy \Ly*can"thro*py\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. lycanthropie.]
1. The supposed act of turning one's self or another person
into a wolf. --Lowell.
2. (Med.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient
imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that
animal.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lycanthropy
n : (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the
characteristics of a wolf
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